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Garageband.com calls it quits July 15th, 2010
Wow, after 3 great years working with them, and 10 years themselves, Garageband.com is calling it quits. With their creation of iLike and eventual Myspace takeover, was this not predicted? Here's the email sent out
Dear Garageband Fans,
It's been over ten years since we started helping discover independent music on the ol' interwebs. Things have changed a lot since then. Most of those changes have been good and some of them have been bad. Some changes are just bitter-sweet.It's with this bitter-sweetness that we are announcing today that Garageband.com will be discontinued as of July 15th, 2010. The landscape of how music is discovered and delivered has changed drastically over the last decade and we are proud to have been a huge part of that change - first with Garageband.com and then with iLike.com and beyond. Sadly, that landscape will not include Garageband.com anymore. If you want to continue to make your music available for streaming or download on iLike.com and the iLike application on Facebook, please go to iLike.com and login with your Garageband username and password by July 15th, 2010. This will automatically link your account to iLike so we can port your music, profile photo, and biography to iLike.com. Finally, if you have recently made a purchase on Garageband.com and would like a refund, please email refunds@iLike-inc.com to request a refund. Valid refund requests must be received no later than July 31st, 2010.
Sincerely,
The Garageband and iLike team
Mike Cameo Ads Promotional Sponsorship to Cincinnati's Ride Or Die Tour Stop - Oct 4th
Mike Cameo will be hanging at Inner Circle (formerly Annie's) with the guys from the Ride Or Die Tour. We have promotional sponsorship from OurStage.com and Airwalk - so we got the gang some commercials on Cincinnati 96Rock and a ten ticket give-away at the station! Going to be a blow-out event, and of course, Mike have free stuff for ya! Bands include STEMM, HIS NAME WAS YESTERDAY, ADAKAIN, MILKWEED< STATE YOUR CAUSE and OUR RISING !!! Don't miss this metal explosive night! Oct 4th at Inner Circle(formaerly Annie's) 4343 Kellogg Ave, Cincinnati Ohio. Tickets available at TicketMaster and Inner Circle - $10 / $15 at door - RIDE OR DIE TOUR
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Music Industry Needs Money But Not Press?
(Brian Baker posted at CityBeat.com) I hate to talk shop but I think it's worthwhile that you understand the lengths the media goes through these days to bring you our opinions on the music that gets released each and every week. Three of this week's reviews in my weekly online column for CityBeat, I Shall Be Released, are there for no other reason than a blogger out in webworld saw fit to post the music. Setting aside the natural "downloading is stealing" paradigm for the moment, it should be noted that if I hadn't found the titles posted on a blogger's site, I wouldn't have been able to review them at all, because neither the label nor a publicist could be bothered to send me the discs for that very purpose. And they were asked to. Repeatedly.........
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JetBlue Lets Fans Pick the Acts at T5 Terminal Concerts
(PromoMagazine.com) Airport music usually gets delivered in one of two ways: through speakers hidden in planters, or via ear buds. But JetBlue is hoping to make some noise with “Live from T5,” an online contest that will choose indie music artists to fill the last five slots in its “Live from T5” series of concerts held on selected Friday nights through the rest of the year in its T5 terminal at JFK Airport in new York.. ......
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Put some more thought into your pop
(By Paul Shirley
Special to ESPN.com) Passion Pit is a current darling of the indie set. In 2008, the electropowerpop band released "Chunk of Change," an EP that was an extension of a four-song demo that lead singer Michael Angelakos gave his girlfriend for Valentine's Day. The songs on "Chunk of Change" are sweet like a watermelon Blow Pop coated in powdered sugar and dipped in unicorn dreams. They're so sweet, in fact, that it is difficult to believe the indie population -- once the bellwether for bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden -- could embrace it. ......
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Indie Labels Experience a Major Renaissance Amidst the Upheaval
(Hypebot) With upheaval comes opportunity; and ongoing problems within the recorded music industry has also led to a revival within independent label sector. While not without their own challenges, indie record labels appear to be experiencing a renaissance, thanks in part to new technologies and media that did not exist 5 years ago. Their nimbleness and a fan-like eye for emerging talent is being rewarded by a cadre of fans who continue to demand and support quality music......
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We Found A SUPERHERO!
So I'm out walking around in the afternoon and who do I run across? None other then SHADOW HERO, our hometown superhero! It was AWESOME! Pic is in the shop...will be posting shortly.......
Calvin Walker:Charlotte FM radio pioneer silenced
One of the voices of old-time Charlotte radio has gone silent. Calvin Walker, who worked at 10 local stations and outlived most of them, was found dead in his home Monday. He was 62 and had been in failing health. During his heyday in the 1970s, he was a pioneer of the new FM sound of album rock.......
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Record Store Day celebrates vinyl and its fans
A few years ago, the notion of an international Record Store Day might've felt more like a funeral than a celebration of the impact independent stores have had on music. As distribution (and later sales) of recorded music shifted into the Internet arena, Tower Records and hundreds of other music retailers nationwide went belly up.But when the second annual Record Store Day arrives Saturday, artists and labels will be out in force......
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Blender Magazine has been unplugged
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Alpha Media Group closed Blender magazine today, eliminating about 30 jobs and reducing its portfolio of titles to Maxim alone. The April issue of Blender out now will be its last. The decision, delivered to Blender staff in a meeting this morning, came as part of broader changes that also included the departure of Alpha co-CEO Glenn Rosenbloom and the integration of editorial staff for Maxim and Maxim Digital.
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An obituary for the major labels
(CNet) Almost a year ago, Matt Rosoff posted about how two executives from major Web companies had taken new positions related to digital music: Douglas Merrill left Google to become EMI's president of digital operations, and Ian Rogers left Yahoo Music to become the CEO of Topspin, a then-new company specializing in direct-to-fan marketing. A year later, Merrill's gone, following Guy Hands out the door. (Hands was the CEO of private-equity firm Terra Firma, which bought EMI in 2007.) I'm not sure what he did there, but imagine he was behind the portal site that EMI launched last year...to no effect whatsoever.....
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Big Music Will Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011
Michael Arrington (TechCrunch.com) had a surprisingly candid lunch conversation last week with a big music label executive, and a good part of our talk focused on the future of music. He asked the usual question: Why are you guys so damned clueless? His response: It's all part of a master plan......
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Labels: whatever the future of music is, it isn't "free"
Labels say that it's not just about the concerts and the merchandise; people will still pay for access to recorded music, but not like they used to. The future is monthly or yearly payments for access to all the tunes you want........
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Chicago music ordinance again targeting indie shows
Ten months after a City Council committee tabled a controversial law that opponents say would hamper and possibly eliminate many of Chicago’s independent concert promoters, a revised draft has been circulated to aldermen and made public by a local advocacy group, which charges that little has been done to address its fundamental problems....."“If the ordinance becomes law, it will create unworkable burdens for many small and young music promoters in Chicago".......
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Music Industry - "How do we make money now?"
The music business has finally come to terms with file-sharing, according to executives at the Midem conference in Cannes. But now they have a different problem. They stopped suing file sharers, but now they whine - "How do we make money now?"
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